WHAT IS IT?

All Gold Cup eligibility rules apply. Unlike the traditional Gold Cup Age Group Scoring, here EVERY runner age 14 and Under on July 1 competes against each other for the Junior Striders Overall title. The Gold Cup Junior Striders Overall competition is scored on a cumulative point system. Simply put, every RACE counts. Every PLACE counts.

The objective of the Gold Cup Junior Striders Overall Competition is to identify the top boy and the top girl Gold Cup racers age 14 and under on July 1. This will be determined by awarding points (see HOW IS THE SERIES SCORED below) to the first ten boys age 14 and under and first ten girls age 14 and under in each Gold Cup race. When there is a Junior Strider specific race, Junior Striders will only receive points from that race for the Junior Striders Overall competition. This competition is ONLY for Gold Cup members. You must be a Gold Cup member at the time you run any Gold Cup race to qualify for points in that race.

HOW IS THE SERIES SCORED?

Disputed results must be resolved by the Statistician within 15 days of the completion of an individual race.
Junior Striders Overall points will be displayed in the individual Gold Cup Race Results.

AWARDS

At the end of the year, the boy and the girl age 14 and under on July 1 with the most combined total points from every race in the Gold Cup Series wins.

The beauty of this scoring system is that it gives an incentive not only for speed, but for consistency and tenacity. A runner who shows up at the Gold Cup minimum of 10 races, but wins them all, will score 150 points. A runner who may not be quite as fast, averaging a 5th place finish, but who runs 25 Gold Cup races, will score 175 points.

The top Junior Striders Overall boy and the top Junior Striders Overall girl will be recognized at the annual Gold Cup banquet with unique awards to reflect the tremendous accomplishment achieved and will be removed from the Gold Cup Age Graded, Age Group and Weight-based competitions. If a Junior Strider places in the Elite Series Overall or the Gold Cup Overall competition, they will be removed from the Junior Strider Overall competition awards as well as the Gold Cup Age Graded, Age Group and Weight-based competitions.